As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...
Former Syrian detainee Bassam Ezzedine is on a mission to help prisoners of the fallen regime to find their families.
During the devastating war between the former President Bashar Assad’s forces and the Syrian opposition groups, Douma’s ...
"After the war started, they were too busy to dig in this way. They were more afraid about the political stuff." This opened ...
The Conflict in Syria and the Failure of International Law ... state of international law and the failure of the post-World War II and post-Cold War systems of governance to stem the tide of ...
The U.S. on Monday eased some restrictions on Syria’s transitional government after Islamist insurgents ousted Syrian leader ...
That's where Mohammed al-Refai, a refugee from Syria, lives now. NPR has followed his story for nearly a decade. In 2015, ...
In a Damascus suburb, the head of Syria's tiny Jewish community visits the newly accessible Joba synagogue for the first time ...